If you think the American justice system is somehow decent and respects the Bill of Rights you will not find me sympathetic to your position.
My three obvious points have all been to the Supreme Court and found Constitutional. But anyone with 51% of a brain can see that they aren’t.
- One is the RICO laws that allow special punishment for colluding with others. Designed to imprison Mafia members it is often used just to punish anyone the Justice Department doesn’t like. The Mafia justification is typical. Take away any rights you wish, if the victims are unpopular.
- Second are the laws in nearly every state that allow seizing of assets of people arrested, usually for drug related crimes. Called ‘civil forfeiture’. Seizing assets before trial. Again, such outrageous behavior is justified because the world of druggies is unpopular.
- Third are the condemnations of property under eminent domain laws for private development. Again, anything the government wants is OK if the victims are unpopular and have low incomes or unsightly homes.
Now we have a new one that has been around for three years. It is called Operation Choke Point. The Justice Department has corralled a few agencies that regulate banks, such as the FDIC and told them to pressure all banks to close the banking accounts of anyone the government employees dislike.
Its real. It is happening everyday here in the U.S. Ask anyone in any of the taboo businesses.
Here is the list of businesses being punished by our government:
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Ammunition Sales
- Cable Box De-scramblers
- Coin Dealers
- Credit Card Schemes
- Credit Repair Services
- Dating Services
- Debt Consolidation Scams
- Drug Paraphernalia
- Escort Services
- Firearms Sales
- Fireworks Sales
- Get Rich Products
- Government Grants
- Home-Based Charities
- Life-Time Guarantees
- Life-Time Memberships
- Lottery Sales
- Mailing Lists/Personal Info
- Money Transfer Networks
- On-line Gambling
- Pawn Shops
- Payday Loans
- Pharmaceutical Sales
- Ponzi Schemes
- Pornography
- Pyramid-Type Sales
- Racist Materials
- Surveillance Equipment
- Telemarketing
- Tobacco Sales
- Travel Clubs
Some of these offend me, such as ‘get rich schemes’ and telemarketing but they need to be tried in a court of law with a proven offense. The rest are legitimate forms of business, just not popular with everyone.
The rest just prove that the Bill of Rights means nothing to the Justice System. We live in a banana republic with excessive power in the hands of the government.
Of course, the way around all this crap is to carry guns for protection and operate outside the financial system in the underworld. Which thousands of business people are now doing.